I apologize I’m advance. I try to read and re-read to catch errors. For some reason this one was too hard to re-read.
It’s been a little over a week since the last major upheaval with my girl. I still don’t think I am fully comprehending what happened. What I saw, what I heard, what I had to do.
She went back to him after the last incident. You know, the one where he drug her with his car and beat her again. She signed a six-month lease with him for a shit hole apartment in an old house. First floor was my girl and drippy dick, second floor an old lady and the third floor was drippy’s uncle (shocking) and miscellaneous other derelicts.
The last week of April I could tell she was struggling. The messages and texts she was sending were…..too happy. I wasn’tsure if she was trying to convince me or herself that she was happy. Throughout that week she messaged that she was going to stop at some point during the week and also over the weekend. She didn’t come during the week.
On Sunday, May 1st, I was outside painting a piece of furniture. My other half was doing miscellaneous yard work. My phone rang, it was her. As usual the feeling of “what now” mixed with fear and angst shot through me. I answered to hear my girl and drippy screaming at each other. I had to scream at the top of my lungs to get her attention and get her to hear me. She was pleading and begging me to come get her out. He was yelling at her; she was yelling at him. She found messages he sent to other girls, again. That started the fight, but it always turns into much more. She was completely out of control. He kept threatening to call the cops because she was using “his phone”, the phone he got for her when he put her on his plan. She was screaming at him to stop touching her stuff. I asked her if she thought he would talk to me. She asked him and I heard his response “of course I will talk to your mom”. I can still hear his smug ass voice. I said, “Hello, drippy dick (but actually used his name). We are coming to get “my girl” and all her things. This situation needs to end for your well-being and her well-being.” He stopped me from continuing. Drippy said to me, “please don’t pretend to care about my well-being, that is just disrespectful.” I said, “Oh, I forgot you are all about respect.” I couldn’t help it. I asked if they could please stay away from each other until we get there. He assured me that they wouldand hung up.
She called me back. She was hysterical; dry heaving, crying, screaming. I told her to stay on the phone with me. We were getting ready to leave. Just as a side note, it’s about a 35–40-minute drive to get to her. I kept telling her to go to her car and get away from him. Just sit in her car and ignore him. She said she would. I still heard them yelling and screaming.
We are in the car headed to her. She is still on the phone, I have her on Bluetooth. She tells me she called the police. I was actually shocked. She was in her car waiting. She was crying, wailing in emotional and physical pain. Repeating over and over that she didn’t want to be alive, she can’t do this anymore. This was the FIRST TIME my other half has had the experience of hearing her like this. It’s not a fun thing to experience. But part of me was glad, if I’m being honest. He needed to hear what I have heard for the last four years.
She told us the cops were there. I told her to stay in her car until they come and talk to her. She is still hysterical. I hear her talking to the cop. She has her edge of ghetto girl in her voice and words. I hate it. The cop is trying to calm her. It’s not helping. There are two cops. They go to talk to drippy. She is screaming at drippy. So much is being said and yelled it’s hard to hear everything. At one point is sounded like drippy told the cops he didn’t want her there, and she quickly yelled back that she is on the lease and has every right to be there. Good for her. She was still yelling at drippy to stop touching her things and yelling at the cops to get him to stop. I understood her side. She wasn’t allowed to go into the apartment to keep things civil, but he could start removing her things.
One cop stayed with her, one with. I asked her if I could talk to the cop, he agreed. I explained we were on our way and that I didn’t feel she would be safe if they left. He asked when we would get there, at that point it was another 20 minutes. I hear my girl yelling about one of drippy’s relatives now being there. It was the uncle that lives on the third floor. The yelling and screaming continue until we get there. She was continually saying she wanted to die, she wanted to go to the hospital, she’snot going to make it, she can’t do it anymore. Drippy was playing the victim card with the cops that were there, she felt completely defeated.
We finally get there after what seemed like hours. She was in the apartment getting things, there was a copy inside and one outside. We talked to the cop outside, he was very nice and obviously saw through Drippy’s attempt to be the victim. My girl had her car packed full, and there was more of her stuff in the yard. We started loading up, the cop helped us. While loading up Drippy’s mom showed up. Just as cynical and condescending as her son. She made sure the cop heard that she was at church and her son was just blowing up her phone and she had to leave church early. I can only assume it is a church that allows illegal drug use, carrying weapons illegally and beating women. We introduced ourselves, this is the first time we met or talked. She went into the apartment to console her son.
Drippy tried numerous times to get me or my other half to engage with him. We both refused and ignored him. At one point my girl wanted me to come onto a porch area, which leads into the kitchen of the apartment. There are a few steps up into the kitchen and a man door at the top of the steps. I was standing on the top step, refused to go inside. But I could hear her and would know if anything was happening. Drippy walked by, noticed me and used his foot to slam the door on my face. He made comments to my other half, all to antagonize him into a verbal or better yet a physical confrontation.
We have basically everything in the cars. The cat was the last thing. My girl was maybe a 7 out of 10 in the hysterics. My people are in the yard area, his people are in the porch area. Cops are basically in the middle. Conversations are being had about Drippy not being allowed at our home. He wanted the same for my girl, but whoopsie! She’s on the lease fuckhead. She can come anytime she wants. I loved hearing the cop tell him that. Drippy feels he is very smart in regards to civil and criminal laws. Drippy didn’t like it. So, he says to the cop that he would like to discuss a matter in private with him, because he wants my girl arrested for Domestic Violence because he has a scratch on his hand from her. And BOOM. She is set off. So I said, if that’s the case then my girl will press charges for Domestic Violence as well. That is when Drippy’s mom stepped in and told Drippy they will discuss it and if he feels strongly about it, he can contact the cop later. But my girl is completely out of control at this point. She is now screaming and yelling about $500 worth of dab shit that she just bought for him, and she wants it back, it’s in his car. He refuses to go in his car – for obvious reasons. She refuses to leave; I can’t do anything with her. I can’t get through to her at all.
At this point I have no choice but to manhandle her. I basically have her in a bear hug, walking her out of the yard and to the car. She broke free a few times, throwing things, yelling and screaming. Drippy keeps asking about his phone. She wipes the phone, restoring it to factory and I hand it to the cop to make sure it is returned to Drippy. She still will not leave willingly. Still screaming it’s not fair he gets to play the victim after all he has put her through. I have her wrapped tight in my arms. I tell my other half to open the passenger door and then start my car. I get her into the seat, he has to get her the rest of the way in and shut the door. I am in the driver seat and as soon as her door shuts, I put it in drive and fly out of the alley. She is thrashing, pounding on the dash, the windows, throwing her body front and back. I was terrified she was going to jump out of my car. Oh, I should add that my other half drove her car.
I try extremely hard not to cry in front of her. I couldn’t hold it back. I was so done. I reached my limit. Nothing I said was right, so I just had to stop talking. She eventually held my hand. Slowly began to calm down. I think her body was just done; her mind was done. She was completely spent. She has no more fight in her.
I call her one brother on the way home. He can relate well to her. He tells her he will be at home when we get there and will stay as long as she needs him. I also call a friend who is an officer and ask him to come to the house and talk to her about the domestic violence side of things. He agrees to.
We get home. No one really knows what to do or how to act. We talk to her about going to the hospital to commit herself. She just isn’t sure that’s what she wants. Yes, we can commit her. She will answer all the questions correctly and be released in about two hours. And I take a chance of ruining her being safe with us at home.
It’s eventually decided she will stay home. She wants to be in her bed, in a safe place, with her cat. I take Monday off to be home with her. We talk quite a bit. With her beside me I set her up for an outpatient day hospital program. She agreed to this. Five days a week, 7 hours a day. She is scheduled for in-take on Monday, May 9th. We have to help her make it 7 days.
Throughout the day on Monday, I get her a new phone number. I call the landlord for the lease; I have to leave a message. I get no call back.
Tuesday, I have to go to work, pulling out of the driveway is the hardest thing ever. But she promises me she will not hurt herself. Oh, shit. I should mention that while my girl and drippy were fighting, before anyone got there, she was cutting herself with a scissors. He actually told the officers that he “eventually” took it from her for her own safety. E-V-E-N-T-U-A-L-L-Y.
Anyway, I end up talking to the landlord, she is fine with releasing Hannah from the lease if Drippy agrees to sign a new lease in his name only. She said she would talk to him. My girl sends me a text, she forgot a motorcycle jacket and a picture of her cat that she took, edited and spent quite a bit of time on. I get Drippy’s mom’s number from my girl and text her asking if I send a box with a prepaid label, would she send the items. She said she would need to check with her son. Before she responds about the items, she asks me if I am going to pay the rest of the lease or pay for the phone that he bought for her on installments. WHAT? We had a back-and-forth text conversation for a bit. Nothing was resolved.
Called the landlord back on Tuesday. She answered. Explained the situation. She said she would talk to Drippy and see if he would be willing to sign a new lease in just his name. This will shock you; he did not agree to this. And he let the landlordknow if my girl didn’t pay her part, he would sue her civilly. I fully believe that he would do this. The last thing she needs is to be served with paperwork from him. So, I am paying her half of the rent for the next three months. Sent Drippy’s mom a text advising her, along with a picture of the letter and check I sent to the landlord. Apparently, that isn’t enough for them. Now Drippy also wants me to pay or the phone that HE bought, that is in HIS name and doesn’t have my girls name anywhere on the paperwork. It just never ends.
I’m backtracking here a bit. The evening of May 8th, my girl gets a call from the therapy group she is going into treatment with. They are short staffed and cancelled her in-take for Monday, May 9th. I did confirm this. The next available in-take date being May 20th. Awesome. She got yet another call last week to cancel the May 20th appointment, again due to being short staffed. She actually stood up for herself and said no, she needs this, needs to get it started. She had to settle for an in-take via zoom on May 18th. My fingers are crossed this pans out and she follows through with it.
I have no way of knowing if she is contacting him. I check phone records and don’t see any of his numbers. But there are so many other ways. I know that. I ask her almost daily if she has talked to him, she says no. There are days she wants to. I can imagine after almost 5 years it would be difficult.
I now have to figure out how to get my girl on disability. I can’tkeep paying for everything. Her car insurance is $280 a month, plus the rental payments, plus gas (which she needs to drive to her therapy and doctor appointments) and then there will be all the co-pays for the actual treatment and medication. I have heard attempting to get disability take months, if not years. I am still paying off her last commitment. And of all times, I decide to take a new job, and a 15k yearly pay cut.
Anybody have any advice? I did contact a lawyer and got some basic information. She has to apply, she will be rejected, she will have to appeal, will be rejected and then we have to get a lawyer. We are now working on getting all her medical records to send along with the disability claim. This is not an easy task.
None of this is easy.
How do I...life? 